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In this post I explain the benefits of a great little freeware application called Sizer, which allows Captivate developers to instantly resize any application or browser window to an exact, predefined size. You can download this wonderfully usefull app here: http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/

Have you ever tried to create a software simulation in Captivate 4 or 5 that enabled a rollover effect, a double-mouse-click, and a right-mouse-click all at exactly the same location on a slide? Up till now it's been impossible to achieve due to competing limitations of Captivate's default interactive objects. Now a widget makes it possible to respond to up to seven (7) different mouse events from the same Captivate object!

In this article I provide some suggestions on how to develop concepts for drag and drop questions or interactions in Adobe Captivate using an instructional design tool which has been around since the 1950's...Blooms Taxonomy of Performance Verbs.

If you have a brain like mine, then it's probably organised along the lines of Tarzan's Tree House after Jane went on holiday in England for six months. If so, then you need to pick up some sort of crude chisel and carve this next thing on your bedroom ceiling (won't Jane be pleased?).

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